An new order parameter with renormalized Polyakov loops

Abstract

It is well established that physical quantities like the heavy quark potentials get temperature independent at sufficiently short distances. As a first application of this feature we suggest a new order parameter for the confinement/deconfinement phase transition. Our investigations are based on recent lattice studies.

2 pages, 2 figures, contribution to 'Statistical QCD', Bielefeld, August 26-30, 2001